🧵 Now that #Trump has made “vermin” and “poison[ed] blood” regular features of his rhetoric, many are finally ready to label him a fascist.
Others, like Tim Snyder and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, scholars of authoritarianism, came to this conclusion much earlier.
How did they know? What was the tell?
It was the slow waltz toward violence that could already be observed between the candidate and #MAGA masses. The mutual egging on by both toward new outrages and fantasies of vengeance.
#protectdemocracy
Alexander Karn /
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2023-12-31 15:39:26
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